Shaan Amin
Position title: Ph.D. Candidate: Comparative Politics | Political Methodology
Email: snamin@wisc.edu
Research Interests
Formal Theory; Qualitative Methods; Social Identities
Biography
My dissertation examines the processes by which non-state organizations engage in public service provision for vulnerable stakeholders, relying primarily on 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Indonesia. This research was made possible with the support of the National Science Foundation, the Luce Foundation, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Publications
The Atlantic, “The Dark Side of the Comics that Redefined Hinduism”
The Atlantic, “The Sprawling, Empathetic Adventure of Saga”
The Atlantic, “Trump, Modi, and a Brief History of Making Fun of How South Asians Talk”
The Caravan, “Race to the Top”
The New Republic, “Can the Left Win YouTube?”
Awards
NSF GRFP Award (2019-2022)
Hawai’i/Wisconsin LUCE Faculty-Student Collaborative Research Fellowship (2019)
Hear from Shaan on this episode of the 1050 Bascom Podcast!